March+19-30

=WEEK TEN - QUARTER 2 - Begin vocab packet #6= Last week Thursday-Friday - Poetry packet (Expansion exercises, dream, blotz, cinquain, haikus and tanks)

**What is a Poem?**

**1) Review and apply various poetry terms.**
====**[|Poetic Terms - Glossary] [|Bob's Byway of Terms] [|Poetry-Online.org]**====

** View //Dead Poet's Society.//
=__March 26-27__= =Computer Lab to discuss poetic terms.= ==

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[|Poetic Terms - Glossary] [|Bob's Byway of Terms] [|Poetry-Online.org]=====

[|Langston Hughes Dreams and Poetry] [|Poetry by Langston Hughes] [|I, Too Am America]

 * __Sense Poem (Be sure to focus on word choice! Make each word count!)__**

It feels like that fresh soothing sip of Costa Rica coffee each morning.
Carpe Diem

[[image:mrshscreativewriters/boat.jpg]]
Concrete poem by Hayley Schmidt ('12 grad)

__Poetry Links:__
[|Robert Frost reads "The Road Not Taken"] [|Stopping by Wood on a Snowy Evening by Frost] [|Birches by Robert Frost] [|"Hope is the things with feathers" by Emily Dickinson] [|Shel Silberstein: 'Ickle Me, Pickle Me'] [|Part One Dead Poet's Society] [|Part Two] [|Part Three] [|Part Four] [|Part Five] [|Part Six] [|Part 7] [|Clip Dead Poet's Society] [|Captain, Oh Captain]